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What 3 numbers would best capture the state of a society/civilization? Imagine you are a member of a interstellar species and know about 1000's of civilizations. You want a 3 metric tuple that best captures the…

Humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years. Why didn’t modern civilization happen earlier?

A quick survey. Do you feel you job could be affected by AI within the next 5 years? Please mention your role, AI impact and time frame.

A demo Todo List app using SkyMass for UI and Supabase as the database in ~80 SLoC https://skymass.dev/app/skymass-demo/supabase-todolist SkyMass is a new cloud UI server [2] that provides the entire frontend stack as a…

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Dating services like eharmony base their matches on responses to compatibility questions. Can you think of non technical questions that would help predict if you’d get along with someone on a team? Examples: - tabs or…

There’s lots of open land in the world. Is 100% clean, plentiful energy simply a matter of covering enough of it with solar panels? I know storage is an issue (for nights and cloudy days) but with nearly infinite clean…

This is my all time favorite Settlers trick. I had come into possession of a Monopoly card. This was late in a six person game when all the players had a ton of cards in their hands. When it was my turn, I noted that…

With globalization, and wealthy people’s financial, and therefore political interests, spanning multiple countries, will countries as coherent political entities matter more or less?

A friend is volunteering to setup a computer lab in an African village. They have wifi but nothing else. What is your recommendation for hardware / software setup to optimize for that environment? Things to consider:…

Does anyone know of coding retreats, similar to writer's retreats/workshops. The idea being to pick a good setting (eg: a farm), get a bunch of coders together for a couple of weeks, to primarily work on coding, without…

I don’t know about you but most of my software projects would have been impossible without heavy reliance on open source software. Over the years, every time I npm/brew/cpan installed a package, I also wished I could…

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This is a recruitment funnel:<p>Potential candidates -> contact and hope for a response -> phone interview -> on-site interview -> offer -> hopefully acceptance!<p>Each step has a…